hymn for erishkigal

Eat me up
When it is time
Take me back
Bite the white flesh on my inner arms
And thighs

Cradle me
Engulf me completely
Make me tiny
Tear me apart with your myriad teeth

Give me your thousand eyes and arms
Make me huge with you
Extinguish me

And let me sleep beyond a thousand years

Dreaming the restless power of the birth of countless beings
Eat me up completely
Until I remember
How I have missed you.